LIVINGSTON, NJ: $21.6M on 40,576 FEC receipts

40,576 lines carrying $21,599,416

The headline pair is $21,599,416 and 40,576 lines. The implied average is about $532. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the LIVINGSTON book. Essex County filers typed LIVINGSTON with state NJ.

Livingston is an Essex County township string with a higher mean than many volume books: 40,576 lines against $21.6 million, about $532 each. Short Hills and Millburn are neighboring keys. Newark is a different Essex County city field. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. Read $21,599,416 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of LIVINGSTON gave. The 40,576 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints LIVINGSTON together with Short Hills, Millburn, and West Orange, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $21,599,416 on 40,576 LIVINGSTON, NJ rows, mean near $532. Keep the stored spelling LIVINGSTON in the citation.

Why LIVINGSTON on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Livingston give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city LIVINGSTON, NJ total $21,599,416 across 40,576 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Forty thousand five hundred seventy-six lines against $21,599,416 produce that mean. It is arithmetic, not a typical household gift.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $21,599,416. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $532 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the LIVINGSTON itemized book

$21,599,416 is not spending by LIVINGSTON candidates. A candidate who lives in LIVINGSTON can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged LIVINGSTON, NJ can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Short Hills, Millburn, and West Orange is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $21,599,416 counts rows that stored LIVINGSTON, NJ. 40,576 lines. About $532 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. NJ state-office receipts are omitted.

LIVINGSTON versus Newark on the FEC tape

LIVINGSTON is an Essex County higher-mean book. 40,576 lines produce $21,599,416, a mean near $532. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Newark is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A LIVINGSTON total of $21,599,416 does not absorb Short Hills, Millburn, and West Orange. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NJ stays on the citation so LIVINGSTON, NJ is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in NJ state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in NJ

40,576 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live LIVINGSTON hub rather than guessing the split. After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about LIVINGSTON politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field: $21,599,416 and 40,576.

Source tables for $21,599,416

A mean of about $532 is division of $21,599,416 by 40,576. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of LIVINGSTON. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the LIVINGSTON city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

LIVINGSTON’s $21,599,416 across 40,576 contributions is a Essex County city field, mean near $532. Short Hills is a neighboring string, not a subset. Essex County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $21,599,416 with 40,576 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city LIVINGSTON, NJ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city LIVINGSTON, NJ total $21,599,416 across 40,576 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Livingston. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $532 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Why is Livingston’s average line near $532?

Forty thousand five hundred seventy-six lines against $21,599,416 produce that mean. It is arithmetic, not a typical household gift. LobbyVault counts 40,576 itemized contributions for LIVINGSTON, NJ against $21,599,416. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 40,576 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Livingston total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed LIVINGSTON with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Livingston can be part of $21,599,416 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 40,576-line count follows the same rule.

Are Livingston numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $21,599,416 and 40,576 lines for LIVINGSTON, NJ. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NJ are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.